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You’re More Resilient Than You Think • Rabbi Denise Eger & Rev. Dr. Neil G. Thomas
If we held a moment of silence for every American who died of COVID it would take nearly two years at a rate of 24 hours a day to cover every name.
Mo…
3 years ago
Why can't Israel be better?
"That's it!" my friend told me over coffee. "I am so done with Israel! The corruption, the situation with the Palestinians, the racists in the govern…
3 years ago
What Governor DeSantis needs to learn about the Holocaust and the Bible
I started my rabbinical career 42 years ago, when I served as an assistant rabbi at a large, urban synagogue in Miami, Florida.
Those were interesting…
3 years ago
Should the Tree of Life shooter get the death penalty?
It was the fifteen worst minutes in American Jewish history.
It happened on October 27, 2018. It was a Shabbat morning. A gunman, Robert Bowers, enter…
3 years ago
Happy 95th birthday, Cynthia Ozick!
Bernard Malamud. Saul Bellow. Philip Roth. Joseph Heller. Herman Wouk. J.D. Salinger. Norman Mailer. E.L. Doctorow. Chaim Potok. Leon Uris.
That is a …
3 years ago
What Israel restored to the Jewish people
So, this really happened.
Some years ago, my young cousin was on a United Synagogue Youth trip to Israel. While she was there, the group went north to…
3 years ago
Is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' a Jewish story?
It is time to play movie trivia.
According to the American Film Institute, who is the greatest hero to ever appear in a movie?
Indiana Jones? Rocky Bal…
3 years, 1 month ago
Why I am saying kaddish for Al Jaffee of Mad magazine
Mad magazine was the haggadah of my childhood.
It was my sacred text, my script and my constant companion — so much so that I cannot imagine my childh…
3 years, 1 month ago
When Israelis protest, it is music to my ears
I have been watching what has been unfolding in the state of Israel – the 5 percent (and growing) of the Israeli population that has taken to the str…
3 years, 1 month ago
Leo Frank’s ghost still haunts us
The word is "shushky."
It means to shush something -- to not speak about something, to silence a conversation. It is a uniquely Southern Jewish Yiddis…
3 years, 1 month ago